Rep. Ed Jones

Former Representative from Tennessee's 8^th District

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1983-1988	Representative	Tennessee's 8^th District
1973-1982	Representative	Tennessee's 7^th District
1969-1972	Representative	Tennessee's 8^th District

Sponsorship Analysis

Jones was a centrist Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Jones’s time serving in the House of Representatives.

Use this chart to compare Jones to other members of the House of Representatives in the 100^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Apr 1969 to Oct 1988, Jones missed 1,368 of 9,554 roll call votes, which is 14.3%. This is worse than the median of 5.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Oct 1988. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1969 Apr-Jun	28	3	10.7%	55^th
1969 Jul-Sep	42	2	4.8%	43^rd
1969 Oct-Dec	85	25	29.4%	90^th
1970 Jan-Mar	33	9	27.3%	85^th
1970 Apr-Jun	74	25	33.8%	87^th
1970 Jul-Sep	75	16	21.3%	72^nd
1970 Oct-Dec	76	13	17.1%	65^th
1971 Jan-Mar	20	1	5.0%	53^rd
1971 Apr-Jun	87	21	24.1%	90^th
1971 Jul-Sep	65	37	56.9%	99^th
1971 Oct-Dec	132	21	15.9%	74^th
1972 Jan-Mar	62	8	12.9%	68^th
1972 Apr-Jun	111	27	24.3%	80^th
1972 Jul-Sep	99	43	43.4%	97^th
1972 Oct-Oct	47	13	27.7%	80^th
1973 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1973 Apr-Jun	188	29	15.4%	82^nd
1973 Jul-Sep	130	17	13.1%	81^st
1973 Oct-Dec	180	17	9.4%	69^th
1974 Jan-Mar	77	25	32.5%	97^th
1974 Apr-Jun	165	46	27.9%	95^th
1974 Jul-Sep	143	66	46.2%	97^th
1974 Oct-Dec	139	7	5.0%	30^th
1975 Jan-Mar	65	11	16.9%	91^st
1975 Apr-Jun	188	33	17.6%	93^rd
1975 Jul-Sep	145	2	1.4%	21^st
1975 Oct-Dec	186	8	4.3%	52^nd
1976 Jan-Mar	105	13	12.4%	78^th
1976 Apr-Jun	252	57	22.6%	90^th
1976 Jul-Sep	251	88	35.1%	95^th
1976 Oct-Oct	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1977 Jan-Mar	100	9	9.0%	70^th
1977 Apr-Jun	269	20	7.4%	57^th
1977 Jul-Sep	198	7	3.5%	36^th
1977 Oct-Dec	123	12	9.8%	73^rd
1978 Jan-Mar	140	30	21.4%	95^th
1978 Apr-Jun	295	20	6.8%	47^th
1978 Jul-Sep	306	18	5.9%	41^st
1978 Oct-Oct	75	5	6.7%	55^th
1979 Jan-Mar	61	8	13.1%	80^th
1979 Apr-Jun	215	13	6.0%	50^th
1979 Jul-Sep	197	1	0.5%	10^th
1979 Oct-Dec	189	4	2.1%	16^th
1980 Jan-Mar	145	14	9.7%	59^th
1980 Apr-Jun	190	5	2.6%	19^th
1980 Jul-Sep	187	13	7.0%	52^nd
1980 Oct-Dec	66	10	15.2%	70^th
1981 Jan-Mar	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1981 Apr-Jun	89	6	6.7%	53^rd
1981 Jul-Sep	106	9	8.5%	74^th
1981 Oct-Dec	141	6	4.3%	42^nd
1982 Feb-Mar	48	6	12.5%	68^th
1982 Apr-Jun	117	13	11.1%	82^nd
1982 Jul-Sep	183	62	33.9%	96^th
1982 Oct-Dec	99	6	6.1%	40^th
1983 Jan-Mar	40	11	27.5%	97^th
1983 Apr-Jun	182	31	17.0%	92^nd
1983 Jul-Sep	126	21	16.7%	96^th
1983 Oct-Nov	143	4	2.8%	26^th
1984 Jan-Mar	52	3	5.8%	56^th
1984 Apr-Jun	221	24	10.9%	78^th
1984 Jul-Sep	93	22	23.7%	96^th
1984 Oct-Oct	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Jan-Mar	36	0	0.0%	0^th
1985 Apr-Jun	153	14	9.2%	80^th
1985 Jul-Sep	101	2	2.0%	30^th
1985 Oct-Dec	146	4	2.7%	45^th
1986 Jan-Mar	60	3	5.0%	49^th
1986 Apr-Jun	126	15	11.9%	92^nd
1986 Jul-Sep	201	28	13.9%	93^rd
1986 Oct-Oct	60	6	10.0%	77^th
1987 Jan-Mar	39	2	5.1%	58^th
1987 Apr-Jun	186	26	14.0%	91^st
1987 Jul-Sep	95	2	2.1%	38^th
1987 Oct-Dec	167	9	5.4%	39^th
1988 Feb-Mar	45	11	24.4%	93^rd
1988 Apr-Jun	161	84	52.2%	98^th
1988 Jul-Sep	150	38	25.3%	94^th
1988 Oct-Oct	88	28	31.8%	96^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ed Jones [D-TN8, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for Tennessee's 8th congressional district

Oct 22, 1988

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ed Jones [D-TN8, 1983-1988] takes office as Representative for Tennessee's 8th congressional district

Jan 03, 1983

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ed Jones [D-TN8, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for Tennessee's 7th congressional district

Dec 23, 1982

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ed Jones [D-TN8, 1983-1988] takes office as Representative for Tennessee's 7th congressional district

Jan 03, 1973

Elections and Offices

Rep. Ed Jones [D-TN8, 1983-1988] leaves office as Representative for Tennessee's 8th congressional district

Oct 18, 1972